Comments on: Social capitalist

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Whuffie and social capital || August || 2008

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:33:19 +0000

[...] in a publicly visible easily adjustable way. You can see why this concept would interest me, given my social capitalist post from a couple months ago. In the circles of society where I typically hang out, it matters less how [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || A Whole New Mind, by Daniel H. Pink || July || 2008

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:25:52 +0000

[...] friend Wes recommended this book to me after my social capitalist post where I claimed that we were moving from a world defined by technology to one defined by social [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Living in the future || July || 2008

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:21:41 +0000

[...] example is a phenomenon that BJ Fogg is calling mass interpersonal persuasion in a comment he left on my post. It’s the idea that the tools of persuasion are being democratized, that anybody can create [...]

By: BJ Fogg

BJ Fogg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:23:04 +0000

Eric,

Thanks for your mention of the Fast Company article. For a slightly different but related take on social networking, here is a link to my paper on Mass Interpersonal Persuasion. It was just recently presented at Persuasive Technology 2008 in Finland and published by Springer.

http://www.bjfogg.com/mip.pdf

BJ Fogg
Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Social technologies || June || 2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:41:13 +0000

[...] up on yesterday’s post and Seppo’s comment, another topic that has been coming up in my conversations is the idea of “social [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:46 +0000

intresting ... one of brain cells fired on this and thought about the disapperance of Jim Gray When you start to read about the man you get to see the social capital idea working. see this NYTimes post for the love of the man who always had time for you.

By: seppo

seppo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:14:00 +0000

Uh… dude? Would you mind getting OUT OF MY BRAIN!?!?!?

WHAT THE HELL?

Seriously. It’s crazy. A huge portion of my day today was about trying to break the team’s bad habits, trying to build new good habits/relationships.

I can’t talk about it in a whole lot of detail (see? I learn lessons from past experiences sometimes!), things are extremely dysfunctional at work and they’re not *talent* problems. The team’s extremely, dare I say, extraordinarily talented. But the company culture and the social framework within which everyone works ridiculously broken, and the source of most, if not all of our problems.

I would never have thought, five years ago, that I’d even care about this *type* of problem, but here I am trying to be the kick in ass that starts things in the right direction.

In my industry, the skill of a few phenomenally talented individuals can have a huge impact. But the quality of the end result depends on the team as a whole, and without the chemistry, without the shared passion, and without the shared personal investment in the product, that product will never be what it needs to be.

If you can get a team like that, you have value that money can’t buy.